HELSINKI, Sept 14- Italy's economy minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Saturday that privatisation targets set by the previous Italian government were "unrealistic", and warned the sale of government shares in public companies should be handled with caution. He said the sale of public assets could be a way of reducing Italy's large debt, but should be used with...

HELSINKI, Sept 14- Italy's economy minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Saturday that privatization targets set by the previous Italian government were "unrealistic," and warned the sale of government shares in public companies should be handled with caution. He said the sale of public assets could be a way of reducing Italy's large debt, but should be used with...

HELSINKI, Sept 14- Italy's economy minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Saturday that privatization targets set by the previous Italian government were "unrealistic," and warned the sale of government shares in public companies should proceed with caution. Gualtieri, speaking after his first meeting with EU finance ministers since the new Italian government...

MILAN, Sept 13- Italy's Atlantia said on Friday it would launch an audit to assess whether internal procedures were followed properly after employees at two of its units were arrested over allegations that safety reports on some viaducts were falsified. Three employees of companies owned by the infrastructure group were placed under house arrest earlier on...

*London bourse cites concern over Hong Kong unrest. The Hong Kong exchange said it would now hold more talks with LSE investors as it considers its next step, aiming to keep alive its hopes of becoming a more global player to rival U.S. giants ICE and CME. The LSE said earlier on Friday, as it rebuffed the Hong Kong approach, that it was sticking with its $27 billion...

LONDON, Sept 13- Core euro zone bond yields rose to six-week highs on Friday as concern crept into the market that the European Central Bank is reaching the limits of what its policy can achieve, a day after the bank pledged indefinite stimulus to boost a weak economy. Several ECB officials cast doubt on the effectiveness of and the need for the measures on Friday,...

*London bourse cites concern over Hong Kong unrest. LONDON, Sept 13- The Hong Kong exchange refused to give up on its bid to take over the London Stock Exchange after the LSE emphatically rejected the Asian bourse's $39 billion takeover offer on Friday. HKEX's valuation of the LSE falls "substantially short" and the "ongoing situation in Hong Kong" adds to...

LONDON, Sept 13- The London Stock Exchange emphatically rejected the Hong Kong bourse's $39 billion takeover offer on Friday, opting to stick with its planned purchase of data and analytics group Refinitiv. The LSE told HKEX in a letter that it had fundamental concerns about key aspects of the proposal which it said had no strategic merit, and that HKEX's...

MILAN, Sept 13- Italian tax police are conducting searches and arresting people as part of an inquiry into falsified reports about motorway viaducts' safety checks following the deadly collapse of a bridge in Genoa, the police said. The police said the probe stemmed from an investigation into the Genoa bridge collapse. Dozens of Atlantia executives and...

MILAN, Sept 13- Italian tax police are conducting searches and arresting people as part of an inquiry into falsified reports about motorway viaducts' safety checks following the deadly collapse of a bridge in Genoa, the police said. The police said the probe stemmed from an investigation into the Genoa bridge collapse. Dozens of Atlantia executives and...

MILAN, Sept 13- The euro zone needs a more supportive fiscal policy, Italy's new economy minister said in a newspaper interview on Friday, adding that spending on green investments should not count towards a country's budget deficit. Roberto Gualtieri, the former head of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee, told daily la...

MILAN, Sept 13- The euro zone needs a more supportive fiscal policy, Italy's new economy minister said in a newspaper interview on Friday, calling for spending on green investments to be excluded from countries' structural deficit calculations. Roberto Gualtieri, the former head of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee, told daily...